On Sat, 18 Aug 2001 11:29:37 -0400 (EDT), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The whole notion of what's outdated has certainly come
> a long way since I first registered Arachne in '97. I
> seem to recall at that time that Michael was doing all
> development on a 386DX-40.
Yes, I got a used system in Jan 96 specifically to use with
Arachne and shopped for a fast 386 with 8 megs and a Trident
video card because it was equal to the system Michael used for
original Arachne development.
> Well, I've been thinking for a while that I should get
> an old bang-around machine for a firewall, so I bid on a
> computer at e-bay, and it arrived last night. I'm really
> happy with what I got, and what I paid for it!
> Zeos Pentium 90
> (cooling fan mounted in case to blow across the CPU
> heat sink instead of being mounted directly on it)
> 16 MB RAM
> 1GB Conner SCSI Hard Drive
> 2MB Diamond Stealth 64 PCI video card
> 3�" Floppy
> Mitsumi 4x CDROM
> 5 ISA slots
> 3 PCI slots
> 1 AGP slot
> 6 DIMM slots
> The price? Well, the winning bid was $16.50. Add
> $20 for shipping, and I got it for a grand total of
> $36.50 and a one-week wait.
My friend at the small town computer and vacuum cleaner store
has a couple of faster Pentiums with 64 megs, a tape drive and
a legal, single user Win 95 license that he's trying to peddle
for about $150 or so. So if you subtract out the Windows license
and the shipping, I guess he's in the ballpark with a guaranteed
to work system.
Dirt cheap hardware.
The Computer User monthly that I used to read for the used hardware
ads no longer has any ads for used equipment. Last month brand new
systems were advertised by several dealers at the $400 price point.
Here's what you get:
AMD Duron 750 Mhz
64 megs
10 g hd
Diamond Savage 3-D Video
1.44 floppy
50x cd rom
32 bit PCISound
ATX Mini Tower Case
56k V 90 Modem
That's the print ad. The website listed a slightly better deal
and I imagine that prices drop weekly.
http://www.zakpc.com
Sam Ewalt
Croswell, Michigan, USA
-- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
